Abstract

At the turn of this century, the government encouraged the use of computers and IT teaching in schools. It was
prudent for Old Kampala SSS to embrace this innovation or else it lags behind. It was therefore due to this urgency
to keep up with the pace that led to the development of a student results management system at Old Kampala SSS.
Traditional methods of recording, compiling and keeping student results were the norm, for example, the use of
papers to record and store exam results in file cabinets, the manual compiling of students’ results was very slow,
prone to errors and very tiresome which lead to the late release of student results. With the above background, a
study had to be carried out, whose main objective was to design and implement a modular student results
management system that would enable the staff of Old Kampala SSS to record, compile, process and store student
results so as to increase efficiency and effectiveness. System requirements were obtained using several techniques
including the sampling technique which was used to identify the sample population from whom data was got. The
sample population was then subjected to the data collection tools using Questionnaires. A Use case diagram, Class
Diagram, Data Flow Diagram, and Flow Chart were used to analyze and design the system. The system was
implemented using VB used to design the front-end user interfaces (forms), while MS Access was used for the
database server.